Lisa Stone is a BlogHer, Inc. co-founder and serves as the company’s CEO. With Lisa’s leadership, the company has grown from a grassroots conference into a diversified media company and a Top 5 women’s network online. As principal architect of BlogHer’s media business, Lisa developed innovative models for profitable, premium online media, and for recognizing and compensating a new wave of content creators. A traditional journalist who left CNN in 1997, Lisa was the first Internet journalist awarded a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard University. Lisa has been honored among the 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company, the Most Powerful Moms in Media by Working Mother Magazine, and AlwaysOn Top 25 Women in Tech.